New member

Reason I'll be using Wordpress and XF is because of the features and how it's going to systematically work the way I want it to for the website I'm developing. I did look at the XFPortal and understands it has many features and that's great too. I guess people when developing have individual needs and design choices when they go about developing. But having said that, it's such a difficult choice to make because their both outstanding scripts from what I have heard from community feedback so it was not a decision I rushed into.

Active member

Another reason for WP would be that behind WP is a bigger community and a bigger dev. team.
If something bad happens to jaxel, you'll have to switch to an alternative as long as he doesn't have a rescue plan for the addons (which I'm not aware of).

But the recent events with some xf-addon-devs made the people finally think about what risks they can affort

Everything has risk.
If Jaxel stops supporting his addons and Xenforo releases code that breaks his addons, there are so many people whom use XenPorta ... they'll be plenty of people to help with code fixes.
small example - http://bukkit.org/

FWIW - A bridge is much less stable than Jaxel's XenPorta. The bridged software can be broken with either a WP or XF update.

Jaxel made great addons for vB. xF & members are very lucky he moved over to xF. Many xF sites have benefited from his portal. He also uses XenPorta himself. 8wayrun.com is not xenfans.com or ragtek.org . 8wayrun is very popular site and Jaxel has a major vested interests in keeping it going. XenPorta users should feel very confident that Jaxel is at the helm.

New member

I think I'm going to use XenPorta now. I looked into the Wordpress bridge and there is one feature which is the posting of Wordpress posts to Xenforo that I only really needed (with the intergration obviously which comes with the basic one as standard anyway) because of the way I'm developing my website so yeah I've decided to go with XenPorta on that basis.

And also, I think people like Jaxel who put a lot of time and effort into their work deserve a lot of credit for not only bringing it here to Xenforo but making it publicly available to us. Not a lot of people do that so yeah I salute the guy for that. I have plans to purchase the copyright removal of it so hopefully many more people who do this will let him know that we fully support him so he will keep on doing the great work he does.

Anyway, better sleep now. Been on Kingdoms of Amalur all night! Later folks.

Formerly Dinh Thanh

Well-known member

Using CMS integrated with forum may be ok for guests but very inconvenient for active users.
If you want to check forum alerts and inbox you should first go to main page, then click to forums.
Moreover if you have actively commented news you won't see any alerts about comments in the forum.

Well-known member

I'd like it if XenForo made an official and supported WordPress Bridge (I'd buy that).

I currently use WordPress, but do not have any bridge installed. Mostly because bridge development is often abandoned by whoever develops it. I've not known any long term bridge support by anyone or one that kept with current versions.

So for now, I do use WordPress, but it's separate from my XenForo install.